Coaching practices for Attention Training Routine

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• When I try to lock onto one thing, my attention slides off it within seconds and I have to keep dragging it back
• I only ever try to wrangle my attention once I’m already spiraling, when it’s far too late to work
• All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
• My attention feels welded to the inside of my own head
• Once my mind latches onto a worry I genuinely cannot pry it loose

Practices that may help

1. Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
   The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
2. Selective attention to individual sounds
   Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
3. Daily 12-minute ATT practice
   Run the full three-phase ATT session every day as a skill, not a relaxation ritual.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
4. The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
   Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
5. Attention training technique (ATT)
   Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
   Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
6. Rapid attention shifting between sounds
   Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
7. Attentional cueing for critical features
   Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
8. Build precise awareness of when and how the habit occurs
   You can’t interrupt what you can’t detect — map the habit sequence in granular detail.
   Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical
9. Install a focus cue as the final routine step
   End every pre-performance routine with one specific cue that triggers full attentional commitment to the task.
   Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical
10. Train flexible attention
    Practise deliberately moving attention between external cues and internal experience — and back.
    Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical

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